In 1973, a massive manhunt in New York's Adirondack Mountains ended when police captured a man named Robert Garrow. And that’s when this story really gets started. This episode we consider a string...Show More
Academic Brittney Cooper on Rachel Held Evans' Faith Unraveled, church, and the risk of being wrong. To learn more about the books we discussed in this episode, check out Eloquent Rage by Brittney Coo...Show More
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Dr. Brittney Cooper and her latest book, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
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Is democracy doomed? Actually, let’s take one step back: what came to your mind when you read the word ‘democracy’? It’s one of those words that on first glance seems easy enough to define but can tri...Show More
On the cusp of her 39th birthday, recently divorced Michelle struggles with a complicated new romance. A drunken tarot card reading returns her to 1999, when she first met The Scientist (soon to be Th...Show More
Franklyn has begun dating again after his divorce. But hurt and fear from the past are making it hard for him to dive in to new love.
In this episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Paul Holdengraber reaches Alexander Chee in Italy and asks him about mentors (and mentoring), his favorite Italian writers, virtues great and small, and the ...Show More
Kevin Young, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and New Yorker poetry editor, recently published a new collection of poems titled "Brown: Poems." From James Brown to John B...Show More
Why do dictators and despots create outlandish myths about themselves? Why spread lies claiming that you've written 18,000 books or that you personally invented hamburgers? Why waste millions on a gol...Show More
Exactly how incompetent you are. What your ex’s best friend really thinks of you. The approximate time that you will die. Some things in life are better not to know about. And sometimes there can be a...Show More
A mesmerizing story about the wisdom and delight you can find — even in the midst of tragic loss — by seeing life and death through the eyes of a child. Storyteller Lucy Kalanithi is the widow of Paul...Show More
Join a young Arianna Huffington on her journey from Athens to Cambridge, as she shares a lesson she learned from her mother of embracing life’s journey without being attached to the outcome.
Can a fake C-section have real emotional impact? Plus, a simple change in the procedure that erases one mom's C-section guilt. To join the conversation about this episode, go to longestshortesttime.c...Show More
When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? Maybe you save the youngest. Or the sickest. Maybe you even just put all the names in a hat and pick at random. Would your answer c...Show More
A mailbag episode! You asked and we answered your burning history questions which took us to the Cowichan sweater, Cheezies, the legacy of Hawaiian Canadians in B.C and one guy named Portuguese Joe.
Oprah discusses the best lifesaving lessons she's learned and says we should use our intuition and the voice in our heads that says, "Something is off here." Oprah reflects on her Oprah Winfrey Show c...Show More
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Michael Barbaro, who hosts the hit podcast The Daily for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Barbaro explains why he...Show More
A woman's choices around fertility are personal. But women are also speaking more openly and candidly about fertility goals and reproduction. Ko Im, chose to make her decision public and document her ...Show More
This versatile category of Korean pickled vegetables is gaining a global presence. Anney and Lauren dive into the long history and delicious fermentation science behind kimchi.
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A mysterious illness plagues a Connecticut town. A brief introduction into “Lymeworld”. A lesson on the epidemiological triangle. Click here to donate $20 and get ad-free episodes of Patient Zero a we...Show More
Myths of the Civil War and slavery are being kept alive at Confederate monuments, where visitors hear stories of “benevolent slave owners” and enslaved people “contented with their lot.” Plus, an art...Show More
Bernard Madoff may be a fading memory from the past, but for reporter Steve Fishman, the fallen financier’s story holds lessons for today. Madoff masterminded one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in histo...Show More
Across the country, universities are being criticized over issues of money: from how they spend their endowments, to how they raise tuition, to how they award financial aid. Many students are feeling ...Show More
Dominique Martin was thrilled to get a state-funded voucher to send her daughter to private school. We go to Louisiana to investigate the cost of school choice. Don’t miss out on the next big story....Show More
Stat: 64 percent of Americans say fake news is causing confusion over basic facts, according to the Pew Research Center. Story: It’s becoming increasingly more difficult to sort fact from fiction in t...Show More
Helen Lee Bouygues, founder of the Reboot Foundation, believes that a lack of critical thinking is responsible for many business failures. She says organizational leaders often rely too heavily on exp...Show More
Canoe-borne bandits strike an underwater town. A new generation of wealthy lobstermen is minted. An island disappears. And hellfire engulfs a highway jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power d...Show More
Libraries get rid of books all the time. There are so many new books coming in every day and only a finite amount of library space. The practice of freeing up library space is called weeding. When the...Show More
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Millennials are the most stressed generation that has ever existed. We’re all stressed because we’re living in a time where our environments are evolving at a faster than our biology can keep up with....Show More
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#124 — Summer Break? Where Do the Kids Go While Their Parents Work and Other Thoughts On Summertime Summer break. As a child there was no sweeter words in the English language. With its promises of l...Show More
I believe one of the most powerful things we can do for one another as humans is anti-racism work. I am honored and thrilled to be featuring Rachel Ricketts, a racial justice advocate and coach on thi...Show More
"We really tried to select stories that would go across the spectrum of American life," journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones told us.Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe...Show More
Nikole Hannah-Jones joins to discuss conceiving and leading the "The 1619 Project" from The New York Times Magazine. This segment is guest-hosted by Nancy Giles.
Author of the new book It Came from Something Awful, Dale Beran teaches us the history 4chan and 8chan. How did simple websites transform into centers of white nationalism, violence and tools of polit...Show More
Rohingya refugees and the prospects for a safe return.
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Violence and persecution in Myanmar - formerly known as Burma - has forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya [ro-HIN-ja] Muslims to flee from the Buddhist-majority country. Oregon has a growing commun...Show More
The Rohingya people in Myanmar and the Uighur people in China are familiar to many of us through news reports. And usually their story is told by journalists in sombre voices reporting on the politica...Show More
In 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims left their homes in Myanmar fleeing government persecution, in what the UN has called the world's fastest growing refugee crisis. Lucy Burns speaks ...Show More
Jeff Chang is a journalist and music critic with an emphasis on hip-hop music and culture. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Spin...Show More
When political institutions shut out wide swaths of people, the path to change is often through culture. Hip-hop scholar Jeff Chang gets political with Justin, calling out the strengths and stressors ...Show More
Shaken by a court's decision to acquit George Zimmerman over the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Alicia Garza wrote, "Black people, I love you. I love us. Our lives matter." From there, the hashtag ...Show More
In an excerpt from our first stop on the Shine Theory Tour, we discuss the Cheeto Administration's attempts to erase trans people, investing advice from Reddit, and San Francisco's debate over how to ...Show More
“Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter.” In July of 2013, Alicia Garza wrote these words in reaction to a jury’s acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. ...Show More
From #MeToo in Hollywood to the women's marches across the country, women’s anger and rage has been at the center of major cultural shifts and, more importantly, has brought to light how far society h...Show More
In an episode called Technical Salvation, Ideas host, Nahlah Ayed, talks with Princeton sociologist, Dr. Ruha Benjamin. Together, they explore her argument that technology reproduces the same kind of ...Show More
Bridget and Yves sit down with mother-daughter duo Michaela Angela Davis and Elenni Davis-Knight to talk legacy, Black genius, making space in art, music, and beauty, and Black girl fairy dust. Learn ...Show More
The battle for Mauna Kea — the first of several standoffs between construction crews and Native Hawaiians — took place in April of 2015, just a few dozen yards from where astronomers gathered in 1964 ...Show More
In the wake of the Weinstein scandal, an ever-widening stream of accusations against powerful men has prompted a considerable amount of soul-searching. On Twitter and elsewhere, one book that has been...Show More
Addressing mass incarceration and repressive policing in the U.S. is a daunting task. Jonathan Simon [1] believes that invoking human dignity, and the need to respect dignity, can fuel efforts to chan...Show More
Colleen Hackett and Ben Turk examine the space between radical and elitist strategies of decarceration. Ben and Colleen wrote the chapter "Shifting Carceral Landscapes: Decarceration and the Reconfigu...Show More
Broome County Jail is a microcosm for much larger problems in American criminal justice. To detail how Broome County Jail shows us why we need to dismantle the carceral state, we invited Binghamton U...Show More
What if we just got rid of prisons? The United States is the epicenter of mass incarceration – but exactly what is it we hope to get out of putting people in prisons? And whatever your answer is to th...Show More
In Episode 19 of Beyond Prisons, hosts Brian Sonenstein and Kim Wilson catch up with activist, writer, and educator Mariame Kaba. Mariame shares her experiences advocating on behalf of Bresha Meadows...Show More
Today the Brown sisters talk with transformative justice practitioner Mariame Kaba (@prisonculture) and get our minds blown with frameworks and breakthroughs on how to really address harm and grow bey...Show More
We’ve been reflecting on Toni Morrison and her legacy, and so we’re thinking of Chris’s interview with her back on The Connection. Here from our archives is that interview, which was occasioned by Mor...Show More
Putting “black faces in high places,” scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor argues, has not only failed to benefit the working class and poor black majority; it has actually harmed them by legitimating an i...Show More
Putting “black faces in high places,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor argues, has not only failed to benefit the working class and poor black majority — it has actually harmed them by pushing an individualist...Show More
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an associate professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University and the author of multiple books, including most recently How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the ...Show More
Kamau and Hari dive into the impact of structural and environmental racism with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (professor of African American Studies at Princeton University) and Mustafa Santiago Ali (e...Show More
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor returns to The Dig to discuss her new book How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Forty years ago, a group of black feminists coined the term “ident...Show More
Few social justice struggles have captivated recent political history like the broad Black Lives Matter movement. From the streets of Ferguson and Baltimore to campaign rally interruptions of leading ...Show More
This is the free weekly edition of TMBS. To support the Michael Brooks Show on Patreon and receive hours of weekly members-only content, subscribe at Patreon.com/tmbs The ongoing "slow-genocide" in W...Show More
In the Damn Library, Christopher gets an egg white cocktail egg-zactly right for Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin and also All About Eggs. He and Drew also chat with Rachel about the inner/out...Show More
Five years ago, StartUp began chronicling the life of a fledgling Brooklyn-based podcasting company called Gimlet Media. This year, the streaming giant Spotify bought that company. In the final season...Show More
Israel is massacring Palestinians daring to approach a fence that occupation forces have built to shore up an ethno-state founded on the principle of apartheid. Nothing could be more clear. But you wo...Show More
Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer, Arundhati Roy. She won the Booker Prize for her first novel, The God Of Small Things, which has been translated into 40 languages and became the best-selling boo...Show More
India in the throes of a fascism that echoes what we have in America. The country is undergoing a political upheaval with PM Modi at its front, and fueled by increased violence towards Muslims, queers...Show More
Twenty years after Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for "The God of Small Things," she returned to writing fiction in 2017 with her novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness." The book was hailed for ...Show More
We'd like to introduce you to The Intercept’s newest podcast, Deconstructed. Every Friday, journalist Mehdi Hasan unpacks the most consequential news event of the week, challenging the mainstream medi...Show More
We interview Noam Chomsky on linguistics, propaganda, terrorism, American foreign policy, and his view on modern libertarianism. We then talk about the media’s slant on the government shutdown and the...Show More
For the past forty years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social...Show More
Melvil Dewey, the father of library science and the inventor of the most popular library classification system in the world, was a known racist and serial sexual harasser. Forced out of the American L...Show More
Ruby in conversation with Lama Rod Owens, co-author of the book Radical Dharma, on the spiritual work of healing systemic racism.
This is an exploration of how to make radical self love with Lama Rod Owens. Acclaimed Buddhist teacher, author, & activist, Lama Rod shares his wisdom about the inner work required for self-love as a...Show More
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i’ve been such a fan of lama rod owens (queer black zen buddhist teacher & author) since reading ‘radica dharma: talking race, love, and liberation’, a book which he co-authored, all about healing, se...Show More
Rev. angel Kyodo williams is an esteemed Zen priest, author, spiritual teacher, and activist. She is the founder of the Center for Transformative Change and the author of two potent books Being Black...Show More
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On June 12, 1999, 15-year-old Sharmini Anandavel disappeared. Michelle Shephard returns to an investigation that has haunted her for 20 years.
It's rare for a book of non-fiction to catch the interest of the reading public in the United States, much less a book on the history of science in the Pacific. But Christina Thompson's Sea People: Th...Show More
Have you ever wondered what the East Bay was like before colonization? In this episode, Corrina Gould of Indian People Organizing for Change shares knowledge of how her ancestors, the Ohlone people, m...Show More
Autumn and Kendra talk with Tressie McMillan Cottom about her new book Thick: And Other Essays, which is out now from The New Press. You can find a full version of the show notes for this episode on o...Show More
Alexander Chee talks about the challenges in addressing and writing about sexual assault, how privilege can operate as an intellectual barrier for people, and navigating his career as a "professional ...Show More
Middle East analyst Jeffrey Martini discusses the so-called "Arab Spring" countries and how the regional turmoil affects U.S. strategic interests.
Speaker: Abdulhadi Khalaf, Lund University Chair: John Chalcraft, LSE In this seminar, Abdulhadi Khalaf revisits the Bahraini trajectory of the Arab Spring. He examines the consequences of competitio...Show More
Shifting our attention to the way we gather, Priya Parker says, will lead us to collective transformation. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/l...Show More
The Rundown: Eve explains why unearthing an interview with Lorraine Hansberry is so exciting and how restrictive covenants segregated cities across the country. Lorraine Hansberry talks to Studs abo...Show More
Once known as Saigon, Vietnam’s largest city is stepping into the future while not forgetting its French-ruled past. Monocle's editors and correspondents are your guide to the world's most exciting an...Show More
Join us as we explore Singapore! From its futuristic skyline, its peaceful gardens, and unbelievably good street food, Singapore should be on everyone's travel bucket list. We spent seven days takin...Show More
Ten years ago, a timid and fearful Hasan Minhaj turned down the opportunity to go to his dream school, UCLA, and instead made the safe choice: to live at home and commute to UC Davis. A year after mak...Show More
Hasan Minhaj (Patriot Act, Homecoming King) and Dan discuss his obsession with Guy Fieri salsa, why upscale restaurants make him cringe, and that time he accepted a bag of food from a stranger at a st...Show More
Dan and comedy BFF Michelle Buteau (Always Be My Maybe, Adulting) talk about why she hates the word short ribs, the X rated symptoms of her pork allergy, and how she enjoys basking in the funk of a do...Show More
This session, featuring members of Red Nation, will discuss the intersection of Native rights and the fight for socialism. Panelists will discuss the two newly formed Red Nation caucuses, the “Beyond ...Show More
Brace Belden was 27 when he snuck into Syria to enlist in a Kurdish militia, leaving his girlfriend, job, and hometown of San Francisco behind. Even he thought it was a dumb idea, but it was also a ch...Show More
Myisha Cherry chats with philosopher, Douglas Ficek about Fanon, existentialism, #BlackLivesMatter, and current day activism
Continuing on Black Skin White Masks (1952), starting with the influential ch. 4 "The Fact of Blackness." Are the successive coping strategies to racism (including "anti-racist racism" and embrace of ...Show More
Ann Curry, journalist and former host of Today on NBC, hosts a new PBS series called We'll Meet Again, documenting dramatic reunions of people whose lives crossed at pivotal moments. She talks to Sam ...Show More
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This week on It Takes A Nation, Terry talks about the Thirty Meter Telescope Project, Mauna Kea, and what we can do about it.
Alanna Miyashiro is an Indigenous Hawaiian scholar, at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, Honolulu. In this episode we discuss the current manifestations happening at Mauna Kea, Hawaii in oposition to...Show More
In this episode, Nina Tran a queer first-generation student of color discusses the different experiences in her life that have made them reject at times the environmentalist label. What defines an env...Show More
Native Hawaiians have been fighting against outside influences for sovereignty of their land, preservation of their culture, and respect for their identity since sugar planters and businessmen forced ...Show More
A hip young artist couple find themselves in an arranged marriage. Get the full story here.
Our world is awash in code, and those zeroes and ones aren't as impersonal as you might think. In his new book, "Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World," journalist Clive Thom...Show More
We’ve tried arresting people. We’ve tried shuffling them from place to place. We’ve tried shaming them into sobriety. What would happen if, instead, we met people where they’re at? Stephanie talks to ...Show More
This week we're joined by writer Ann Friedman, co-host of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend. It's full of advice! Ann gives us some advice on starting a podcast about friendship and also explains Shine...Show More
Adam talks to Caitlin Doughty, a death acceptance advocate, and the founder of the non-profit funeral home, Undertaking L.A. The two discuss the bizarre world of funeral conventions, body compositing,...Show More
Ahmed Ali Akbar talks with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy about using film to tackle violence against women in Pakistan. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio....Show More
In the series debut George invites his listeners to step into the speakers and join him on a meandering ride aboard his own train of thought. The Poet muses on the interplay between crime and music in...Show More
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wowow. little late to this but i absolutely love this experimental podcast from george the poet from london, which combines different forms like poetry, history, fiction, current events, and music!! i...Show More
This captivating conversation explores how the denial of pleasure contributes to our own oppression, how radical honesty and kindness can transform our relationships, moving through the limitations pl...Show More
Toxic masculinity, settler colonialism, and white supremacy are impelling us to a point of no return. If you are coming to this conversation as an environmental advocate, understand that in order to s...Show More
Maya Ajchura Chipana and Juan Lazaros Mendolas, Indigenous Quechua from Bolivia, offer an Indigenous perspective on the coup in Bolivia and the significance of Evo Morales. Support www.patreon.com/r...Show More
For the United Nations' International Year of Indigenous Languages, initiatives to strengthen ties between Indigenous people and their languages are being taken up across the world. This week on Unres...Show More
[REBROADCAST] Documentary filmmakers Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang join us to discuss their new documentary, “One Child Nation." The documentary will be released tomorrow.
Last month APTN reported that 102 Indigenous children died in Ontario’s child welfare system. It’s a tragic and infuriating look at how the system fails Indigenous children and puts their lives at ri...Show More
The New York Times’ Canada bureau chief goes up to visit an Inuit community three times so she must know what she’s talking about… right? Also, podcasting is getting way too popular. Thunder Bay host ...Show More
Documentary filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins and talks about how the media continues to misrepresent Indigenous people. The episode is brought to you by Endy, the Public Service Alliance of Can...Show More
In this episode we interviewed professor and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about her latest book Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. The book has a...Show More
Bassem reflects on the moments that inspired him to leave behind 19 years in medicine for political satire, a show that was watched by 40 million people every week. Now, he tells us about what it’s li...Show More
Note: This post may contain affiliate links. Please see The Lost Geographer's Affiliate Disclosure for more details. Ready to learn about one of the oldest civilizations in the world? A civilization s...Show More
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In this intro episode, Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt share their own approaches to climate storytelling and what they love most about each other's work.Mary's work:The big lie that we're told...Show More
Thank you for listening to Public Access America. here is some information. Now go use it. What I had noticed was groups talking to like minded groups. Nothing gets done and everyone stays mad at ever...Show More
Mic Crenshaw is a hip hop artist and co-founder of the Anti-Racist Action Network that arose and was active in the 80s and 90s. The ARA is an anti-fascist organization dedicated to community defense a...Show More
Are the tides changing and are we all woke? Featuring actor, rapper, writer and activist [Riz Ahmed](https://twitter.com/rizmc), award-winning film and television producer [Alison Owen](https://www.im...Show More
Fifty years ago this November, a group of Native Americans that came to be known as Indians of All Tribes began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island. The takeover and occupation attracted a ground...Show More
In our third stop of the Fall tour, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the architect behind The 1619 Project, and Ibram Kendi, author of “How To Be an Antiracist”, join Chris Hayes to examine the 400 year legacy of...Show More
Kimchi in space. The Kimchi Bus. Korean government-sponsored chefs and restaurants spreading the word of Kimchi around the globe. A story of “Gastrodiplomacy” — the use of food as a diplomatic tool in...Show More
Jordan Weissmann returns to host a new season all about the people who work with the homeless population in New York City. In this first episode, Jordan speaks to Mark Hess, a Supervising Attorney in ...Show More
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really great and fascinating series on those who work with the homeless! this specific episode is about how in nyc, they now have free tenants rights lawyers for tenants as part of a program every pla...Show More
On a special episode of Unreserved this week, we share three documentaries — three personal journeys about family, community and the desire for healing.
“The truth is that as much democracy as this nation has today” writes Nikole Hannah-Jones “it has been borne on the backs of black resistance.” Hannah-Jones is an investigative journalist at the New Y...Show More
This is one of those episodes I want to put the hard sell on. It’s one of the most important conversations I’ve had on the show. The fact that it left me feeling better about the world rather than wor...Show More
Jordan talks to Joanna Fried, a psychiatrist at Janian Medical Care who works with the street outreach team. It’s Joanna’s job to conduct the psychiatric evaluations that are part of the packet someon...Show More
Jordan sits down with Stephanie Somar, a clinical supervisor for the Center for Urban Community Services’ street outreach team. Stephanie and her team work on the very front lines of New York City’s e...Show More
There's a movement building within tech. Workers are demanding higher standards from their companies — and because of their unique skills and talent, they have the leverage to get attention. Walkouts ...Show More
Meng Wanzhou lands in Vancouver on what was supposed to be a routine transit stop. Instead, she finds herself under arrest, accused of violating economic sanctions in Iran and facing the possibility o...Show More
Too many schools don’t have librarians, but if yours does and you're not tapping their expertise to teach digital literacy, you're making a big mistake. Librarians Julia Torres and Lois Parker-Hennion...Show More
Join us in talking to disability activist and media maker Alice Wong about building media that values accessibility, disability as a political and socio-cultural identity, and her journey in founding ...Show More
This week, we’re talking to Nora Samaran and contributing writer Serena Lukas Bhandar about Nora’s new book, "Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture." We talk about how nurtur...Show More
This week Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) sat down with Disability Rights Activist Alice Wong (@SFdirewolf) to talk about what ableism looks like today and responses from the disabled activist community....Show More
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esme wang’s collected schizophrenias book of essays of mental illness was one of my favorites of 2019. this is a great intro to esme’s work! read the book!! i am particular about interview podcasts b...Show More
This week Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) joined host Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) to recap the 2018 midterm elections, and the work that led up to them. They began with a conversation on the demographi...Show More
The F-word gets thrown around a lot these days. But with the president fear-mongering about immigrants, turning a blind eye to political violence from the far right, and embracing white nationalism, i...Show More
Israeli voters returned to the polls this week for the second time in five months to elect the 120 members of the Knesset, the country’s legislative body. The outcome remains too close to call, but it...Show More
Linguist, activist, and political theorist Noam Chomsky has been speaking out against U.S. interventionism from Vietnam to Latin America and the Middle East since the 1960s. He’s the most cited author...Show More
The integrity of the internet is at stake -- what have we lost and how do we get it back? At the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival, Anil spoke with web scholars and writers about reclaiming the internet thr...Show More
Come thru for a conversation on developing a fat politic and social framework, desirability, disability, and care with the one and only performer, writer, and activist: Caleb Luna! Chismology Antholog...Show More
Reporting by Vicky Baker Drama by Chloe Moss Anna Delvey was due to come into a trust fund of $67m on her 26th birthday. She was on her way to establishing the Anna Delvey Foundation, a multi-million...Show More
On November 1, 2018, thousands of Google employees around the world staged a mass walkout in protest of how the company handled claims of sexual misconduct. While this is not the first time we have se...Show More
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‘We seem to be normal, but we are not.’ A United Nations human rights panel says it has credible reports that more than a million Uighurs are being held in reeducation camps in the northwe...Show More
Just six days after Rushan Abbas spoke on a panel that criticized China’s treatment of the ethnic minority Uighurs, her aunt and sister disappeared. Abbas’ family assumed they were sent to the “re-ed...Show More
David Epstein has reported for ProPublica, Sports Illustrated, and This American Life. His new book is Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. “You can’t just introspect or take a p...Show More
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Quote: “Nobody wants to destroy the image of San Francisco.” —James Baldwin About: Whereas Part One looks into the origin of San Francisco’s F-word, and Part Two looks at the buildup and fallout of ur...Show More
From the creation of the first penitentiaries in the 1800s, to the "tough-on-crime" prosecutors of the 1990s, how America created a culture of mass incarceration.
Right-wing Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi has won reelection as Prime Minister of India. We look back at Vinayak Savarkar, one of the architects of Hindu nationalism.
This week, in a special collaboration with Planet Money, we bring you the history of planned obsolescence – the idea that products are designed to break.
How has white nationalism shaped U.S. immigration policy in the 20th century? This week, we share an episode we loved from It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders.
Hawaii is known for its beautiful scenic views, tourism, and Pearl Harbor. But its history also shows encroachment on Indigenous human & legal rights. On this Episode of our show, we welcome Political...Show More
When air traffic controllers went on strike in 1981, Reagan gave them 48 hours to get back to work. In that short time, American labor would change forever.
You never know what might happen when you sign up to donate bone marrow. You might save a life… or you might be magically transported across a cultural chasm and find yourself starring in a modern ada...Show More
Activist adrienne maree brown on how we define pleasure, the wisdom of the body, and what it looks like when you have “enough.”
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listened before the quarantine but will definitely re-listen to this again soon. i appreciated jocelyn's work through hurry slow before but i have a new level of appreciating her wisdom, inquiry, and ...Show More
Named after the very bedroom within which many of the episodes of The Heart were made. In this ep you heard the singing of Sharon Mashihi and phone answering of Mooj Zadie. The manifesto writing of...Show More
A decade ago, South Carolina was one of the most dangerous places in America for a baby to be born. But now, it’s taking an unconventional approach to fixing it: having pregnant women sit in circles w...Show More
This week, we're live from Create & Cultivate's Small Business Summit with Sophia Bush and Stacy London. The real-life gal pals open up about learning to say no, goal setting, and the power of a simpl...Show More
In October 1993, Saskatchewan farmer, Robert Latimer, pumped exhaust fumes into the cab of a pickup truck ending the life of his severely disabled 12-year-old daughter. He claimed it was a mercy kill...Show More
The author of “No Logo” and “The Shock Doctrine,” Naomi Klein has become what Noam Chomsky was to an earlier generation of leftists. Her theories tie inequality and climate change together, arguing th...Show More
Dan interviews Naomi Klein on her new essay collection On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal. Thanks to University of California Press. Check out their huge selection of titles at ucpress....Show More
Claire grew up running wild in the Banksia forests of Southern Western Australia. As an adult she had a period of homelessness, living on the streets of Melbourne. After learning the truth of her fami...Show More
Astrologer Chani Nicholas joins Alicia and Ai-jen to discuss the intersection of social justice and the stars.
In the final installment of our Toronto series, producer TK Matunda sits down with three community organizers to unpack Toronto's food justice scene. This episode, we hear from Vanessa Ling Yu, Direct...Show More
Jill Lepore is a Harvard historian, a New Yorker contributor, the author of These Truths, and one of my favorite past guests on this show. But in this episode, the tables are turned: I’m in the hot se...Show More
We are joined by Mariame Kaba for an expansive conversation on Transformative Justice, community accountability, criminalization of survivors, & freedom on the horizon. Mariame addresses punishment as...Show More
Moving into a new apartment brings up intense feelings around identity and safety for Tranna. Then, writer-performer and former social worker Kai Cheng Thom talks about cancel culture and chosen famil...Show More
Alex Matisse of East Fork talks about walking the line between small scale craft and large scale commercialism.
A section from our chat with Astra Taylor, writer, filmmaker, organizer, and co-founder of the Debt Collective. We talk about Astra's new documentary, What Is Democracy?, and her companion book, Democ...Show More
Maria Ressa: On the existential threat facing free speech, journalism and democracy around the world
Online journalist Maria Ressa, Class of 1986, knows the best and the worst of social media. It helped drive the Philippines-based news site she co-founded, called Rappler, to 300% growth rates in its ...Show More
Seven years ago, the City of Vancouver allowed a comprehensive upzoning of Chinatown that brought in rapid condo development and accelerated the demise of this historic cultural site. Activists and lo...Show More
Author and journalist Rachel Louise Snyder joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to discuss her new book No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us (out May 7 from...Show More
Ezra Koenig is the lead singer and guitarist of Vampire Weekend. But he is also the host of Time Crisis, an internet radio show with a very deep cult-like following. This week, Carla and Adam talk to ...Show More
What happens when you reverse the lens and try to unpack what it means to be a Settler? What’s the difference between Settler colonialism and white supremacy—is it one of kind or degree? And can we ev...Show More
Megan Phelps-Roper grew up inside the notorious Westboro Baptist Church family. In 2012 she left the church, and her family, to live in the world she once reviled
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always fascinated by stories of people changing their world views and specifically realizing the power of control. i’ve been obsessed with megan phelps-roper’s story since adrian chen wrote a profile ...Show More
Growing up in the notorious Westboro Baptist Church, Megan Phelps-Roper was told that God killed soldiers as punishment for America's sins and its tolerance of homosexuality. She started to question h...Show More
A former member recalls growing up in ‘America’s most hated family’ and Claire McGlasson explains why we’re fascinated by cults. Help support our independent journalism at <a href="https://www.theguar...Show More
Special guest Rachel Monroe tells Mike and Sarah what's really behind the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid.” Digressions include David Koresh, East Germany and how flower children were the first mil...Show More
Leah Remini discusses her A&E show Scientology and the Aftermath, Scientology's Fair Game, the Aftermath Foundation, and other topics.
We look into the madness of Jim Jones, with guest Hari Leigh, who tells us about growing up in an ashram
Public health experts are urging people to stay at home during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — but not everyone can afford to. Here in the United States, low-income immigrant communities are facing...Show More
Welcome to the debut mini episode of Lady Don't Take No with Alicia Garza! Garza gets the party started right with friend and superhuman, Lateefah Simon.
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great quarantine listen! love alicia garza and all that she does, especially in these times when i sooo appreciate her connecting us with her network to share with us what’s helpful in trying times (...Show More
Sri Lankan/Irish queer disabled femme writer Leah Lakshmi and I discuss her new memoir, Dirty River, racism in the publishing industry, and whether it's better to fight your way into the mainstream or...Show More
Queer mixed-race writer Jackie Wang and I lived parallel lives in different parts of the country. In this first half of the interview, we reminisce about our teen years, spent listening to punk, readi...Show More
Jackie Wang's book Carceral Capitalism helps draw a direct line between the Recession of 2008, the following calls for austerity, and the visible uptick in anti-Black police violence. Indebted cities ...Show More
Co-host Sigal Samuel talks to Valerie Brown, a mindfulness teacher with a racial justice lens, about how to use Buddhist spiritual teachings not just to soothe us as individuals, but to tackle broader...Show More
The 1950s & 60s saw a wave of radical movements. Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution. The Black Panthers. Quebec and Canada had the FLQ — a showdown that dissolved into crisis. By October 1970, there...Show More
What comes next if America is no longer a superpower?
The core of the Superfund deal itself, and how it proposes to solve Butte’s lingering environmental problems forever, is really important and complicated, both legally and technically. And no wonder. ...Show More
With many Asian Americans only being a generation or two, if at all, removed from Asia, it's important to be informed about political and social movements there. Journalist E. Tammy Kim, who recently ...Show More
A girl straddles many worlds growing up biracial with a single white mother whose new boyfriend brings chaos into a peaceful home.
From a divided home with parents of two opposing world views, a girl whose mother becomes enamored with a trance channeler must now make sense of her life in the void of abandonment.
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fantastic and important reporting from hawaii of hawaiians and islanders we don’t usually get to hear in mainstream news/media. made long before mauna kea gained for traction in the news but great se...Show More